I have thought about this question a LOT. I think another reason people are stuck on it is because it’s a pretty easy thing to understand. Unlike tax reform or healthcare, everyone can understand the concept of “killing babies.” (their words, not mine). So people are stuck on it because it’s the only thing they…

That’s not a stupid question at all. There is a very clear answer, though. The reason Republicans are pushing so hard on abortion is because for a LOT of conservative Christian voters, abortion is the ONLY reason they don’t vote Democrat. If Republicans dropped their crusade against abortion, they’d be dropped by a…

Because this is the #1 issue for those evangelical Christians. They could give a shit about actual babies or church attendance for that matter (see their support of Trump) but they are SUPER into punishing women for sex and limiting their freedom and punishing LGBTQ people comes in at a close second. Literally nothing…

It is the easiest way to appeal to their Christian base. It cost them nothing and it’s an issue conservatives are really stuck on. If you ask my conservative relatives what their number one issue is, they will say abortion, also because it cost them nothing and allows them to bask in their own self-righteousness. In…

The real deal is that they are sexists that want to inhibit the freedom of women. The ability to control when and how we reproduce is probably the greatest factor in women moving up the career ladder and in when we choose to marry, if at all. Stripping us of that right will send us straight to the home, where they…

This isn’t going to be in any particular order. It’s also going to be long.

Implying that only nerds care about consent is a shitty way to frame it. Especially when you are defending CLEAR sexual aggression. I don’t know that it’s much better to use one’s existence as a result of procreation as a defense. Did my uncle grab my aunt’s ass to make some fucked up point about the trade value of…

It’s not provable. There isn’t security camera footage of him walking in on this woman’s (note I am calling her a woman where he consistently, repeatedly calls her a girl) shower. What we *can* prove is that she made the accusation. And he has a history of defensively discussing other sexually aggressive actions (see…

I particularly “enjoy” the line about “When I kiss a girl I don’t ask first because I don’t wear a pocket protector.” So I guess consent is for nerds?

You can’t claim to be not believing either story if you’re proceeding on an assumption that only comes from his side of the story (i.e. that she was with him for career reasons and that she was toxic/manipulative).

I don’t disagree about toxic people. Again though, it doesn’t have anything to do with judging the truth…

Because the president is a rapist.

The “she/he should have done X” armchair analysis is not a reason to discount anyone’s claim of a sexual assault and is entirely exogenous to the truth of their claim. People have already explained time and time again why people don’t necessarily automatically break things off with an abuser/assaulter and whether or…

If the best thing women can do to avoid harassment is to cover themselves up, then why do Orthodox Jewish men insist on sticking their dicks through a hole in a bedsheet to have sex with their wives, like some fucked up Casper role play. If anything, the MORE fabric you have on you, the more a Jewish man will make a…

Sexual violence in movies/TV has made me extremely uncomfortable since I first saw it in Strange Days, which was a POV sequence. Direct brutal portrayal makes me feel ill. ‘Implied’ is more tolerable, but if it is in the first episode/20 minutes, then no thanks.

We just color our river green, please we are civil.

I really wish people would stop denigrating the Joker like this. The Joker is: highly intelligent, well dressed, thin, and often quite eloquent. Also if we’re talking Dark Knight, Joker’s also smart enough to ditch the sleazy Russian gangster.

Also did you hear Chicago is like Syria, a war zone?? Like all of the Chicago. You are welcome.

“I’ve lived in a lot of countries where conspiracy theories abound because people feel like they lack self-determination,” a recently retired Foreign Service officer told reporter Jason Zengerle. “And a great many people inside State are now hypothesizing about what the goal of all this is. Why are they firing people…

I like to “joke” that HBO shows are all the same plot in a slightly different setting. Basically all the writers sat around a table and decided they wanted to have a bunch of sex and violence on TV - sometimes both at the same time - but they realized they couldn’t just do the same show for 20 years straight.

We need an alternate rating system. Not the Bechdel Test, but a system that fixes the MPAA ratings, separates sex from sexual violence, tracks the number of female and LGBT characters, and also tracks character deaths. Autostraddle did a model of something like it for their tracking of LGBT characters on screen and…